Del Johnson

@DelJohnsonVC

VC Principal. Venture Partner. Scout. Elite signal: , , , . I’m not a real person, I’m a ghost trapped in a beat. Email me

New York, NY
linkedin.com/in/deljohnsonvc
Vrijeme pridruživanja: rujan 2012.
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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    6. kol 2019.

    Thread: Despite the Silicon Valley's narrative of meritocracy, success in our industry often isn’t a matter of merit at all, it’s a matter of network. It's time VCs end our exclusionary, value destroying practices. It's time we BAN WARM INTRODUCTIONS!👏🏾

    It couldn't be that VC is built on a structure of unexamined fictions + practices that have long outlived their usefulness, could it?? Could it be that moving forward, VCs will need to change these practices if we are to uphold our fiduciary duties to LPs??..How? to be continued
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    5. velj

    👏 I don’t consult for free 👏 I am not just “good at marketing” 👏 you don’t get to “pick my brain” for our entire growth model 👏 I don’t respond to condescending unsolicited messages 👏 💸 Ask women to invest, put them on the cap table, or pay them for their time 💸

    The way men in my DMs and inbox and LinkedIn messages speak to me about my work...whew!! It’s as if I’m volunteering my time for fun with my ~gal pals~ vs working for a tech co valued at $3bn+. (Pls consider this a blanket no re: consulting for you for free!)
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  3. prije 18 sati

    There’s a demonstrated inability of these VCs to have the cultural competency to fairly assess founders of color and women. They need the remediation, not founders. And the events of this past week have made this point perfectly clear even for those who previously denied it.

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  4. prije 18 sati

    VCs need to change the way they think about diverse founders. Too often the message is that VCs must be incentivized with special programs or rewards to speak with diverse founders. That is backwards, founders have the value. Don’t give away your 30% advantage for VC “feedback”

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  5. prije 18 sati

    If you can’t find diverse founders to invest in, that may signal your lack of evaluative ability or massive flaws in your processes. You need to change your org structure in way that gives you that ability — most likely through hiring.

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  6. prije 18 sati

    The Kauffman report proves the myth of the “pipeline problem.” What we have is an evaluation problem. Sending diverse founders en masse to investors who don’t give a damn about diversity & don’t have the ability to evaluate founders who don’t look like themselves isn’t a solution

    Odgovor korisnicima @DelJohnsonVC @ceonyc i sljedećem broju korisnika: 2
    I call programs that try to increase diversity by sending underrepresented founders to investors nearly cost free “walking the plank.” I bet if u limited the pool of VCs only to folks who have invested in diverse founders, you’d gain credibility. Needs to be a cost on both sides
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  7. prije 22 sata

    Genuinely curious who the "+++" are because right now it looks like more of the same: rich men making rich men richer.

    4/ We raised mostly from founders and operators. They'd love to evangelize & help. 🙏 LPs include +++
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    Excited to see how applies this research to move the cause of investor diversity forward in concrete, actionable, and programatic ways. Given the demonstrated improvements on returns, increasing ethnic diversity must be a top priority of the organization.

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    This is why I’ve been seriously considering distributing my work—Never working for just one fund. The institutional model seems to be crashing down, and individuals can more quickly and freely respond to market needs. VC is unbundling.

    Founders don't want to raise money from institutions as much anymore. They want to raise money from individuals.
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    “ETHNICALLY DIVERSE FOUNDING TEAMS OUTPERFORM BY OVER 30%”

    We co-authored a research report on with . In this data driven work, we call bullsh*t on the "it's a pipeline issue" argument + make the case for more Black/ Lantinx fund managers. Download the PDF from our website:
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    5/LPs that do invest in other markets can be rewarded by being early, and a strategy that picks several seed funds across different geo’s could work very well. Unlikely most inst LPs will do this, but great opp for Family offices.

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    Just reviewed our top 20 value drivers in our portfolio since inception. Virtually all were first time founders.

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    It’s the difference between the “tracked” and the “chosen,” and the ones who chose themselves.

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    Honestly this distinction is so important.

    Most of my success can be traced back to me seeing something in myself that no one else saw.
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    Oh no...

    Odgovor korisniku/ci @DelJohnsonVC
    You should’ve left the tweet up
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    . etc.

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    Oh, looks like there may be an effect on dealflow.

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    . etc.

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    Oh no...

    Odgovor korisniku/ci @DelJohnsonVC
    You should’ve left the tweet up
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    All I’m doing is bringing that cold fry energy to VC.

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    If folks made as big a fuss about this as when they got cold fries, then maybe we could push the asset class forward.

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